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Beatrice

CHAPTER XV
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She very carefully examined first one and then the other, and as she did so a light of intelligence broke out upon her face.
"Well, Portia, have you got it ?" he asked.
"I have got something," she answered.

"I do not know if it is right.
Don't you see, the old man was superstitious; they frightened him first of all by a ghostly voice or some such thing into signing the will, and then to death after he had signed it.

The lawyer's clerk prepared the will--he would know how to do it.

Then he was smuggled into the room under the bed, or somewhere, dressed up as a ghost perhaps.

The sending for the son by the niece was a blind.


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